Satellites and chunks of space junk come close to colliding on a regular basis. The situation could get dangerously out of ...

During the most critical month of the year, May, the Planet Earth Live team followed the lives ... and Swift the tiny meerkat pup. Now, with the addition of some previously unseen footage ...

A 2018 satellite photo shows the aptly named Deception Island, which was formed by a massive eruption 4,000 years ago and ...

"That rounds out 100% mission success for every launch this year. Congratulations team and thanks to all the customers that ...

POES satellites orbit the earth 14 times each day at an altitude of approximately 520 miles (870 km). As each orbit is made the satellite can view a 1,600 mile (2,700 km) wide area of the earth.

The American space agency Nasa has launched a satellite that's expected to transform our view of water on Earth. The Swot mission will map the precise height of rivers, reservoirs and lakes ...